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While the Iraqis were busy counting their death toll of more than 650,000 since March 2003, the United Nations busy counting their dead of more than 34,000 in 2006 only, the Pentagon counting more than 3,070 American deaths and the U.S. treasury counting more than $600 billion of taxpayer money spent so far in Iraq , stealthily and suddenly the U.S. occupation’s oil prize rang louder than the war drums to alert the regional oil producers as well as the major world consumers to guard against (…)

Hayder Amran
Azzaman, January 20, 2007
Life is turning into ‘hell’ for residents of Haifa Street and the surrounding quarters.
Residents said the area was under siege by Iraqi and U.S. troops and scores of innocent civilians have been either killed or injured as a result of the ongoing clashes.
U.S. and Iraqi troops have besieged the street and several other adjacent districts. The operation is seen as a prelude to a massive military push against Baghdad by Iraqi and U.S. troops. (…)

US plans attack on Iran
01/21/2007 07:25 PM | Agencies
Washington & Tehran: US contingency planning for military action against Iran’s nuclear programme goes beyond limited strikes and would effectively unleash a war against the country, a former US intelligence analyst said on Friday.
"I’ve seen some of the planning ... You’re not talking about a surgical strike," said Wayne White, who was a top Middle East analyst for the State Department’s bureau of intelligence and research (…)

Introducing www.ichblog.eu
Hi This is Tom.
We have developed a new sister website for ICH readers and would like to take a moment to provide some information, which I hope will allow you to take advantage of the benefits this sister website offers to those who wish to take a more active role in helping to share news and information with fellow ICH readers.
First let me reassure you that this new website will not in any way replace www.informationclearinghouse.info or interfere with the (…)

Jan 28th, We the People are going to Meet the Press
Congress is not the only Bush Enabler- they could not have done it without the complete complicity of the corporate media. This is our chance to give them an earful.
Double the power of this weekend’s DC Protest, march on the Capitol with UFPJ Saturday the 27th, then STAY to march on the TV Stations bright and early Sunday Morning. Bush, Cheney, Pelosi and the rest of the politicians do not want the crowd to stay.... are you going to (…)

"We are trading lives for oil." Former US Senator Gary Hart, CFR Representative
PLANET EARTH IN PERIL: ALERT EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW!
I’m contstantly astonishing at the lack of response by the human society, with all of its specializations & preoccupations— to the growing planetary SURVIVAL crisis.
I mean what the hell good is your popularity, your bank accounts, your nicely shined car, your sports team victory or the size of your hard drive— when the planet is going to be turned (…)

Liberal Rant on Denish D’Souza 9/11
A recent book accuses the Liberals for the cause of 9/11 written by Denish D’Souza and is in keeping with the Swift Boat attack approach. This is not surprising knowing that swift boat attackers receive safe harbor from the Regnary press and so does D’Souza. Denish the Regnary press and Swift boat architect Carlton Sherwood published and wrote articles and books in defense of the anti Communist fighting religious figurehead,Sun Myung Moon. A major (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com By way of review, career CIA agent David Edger, in August of 2001, was brought to the University of Oklahoma and given the title of "visiting professor." He was sponsored by former U.S. Senator David Boren, who resigned his Senate seat in 1994 to become the OU president. Boren is widely known as the mentor and sponsor of the former CIA boss George Tenet, who was the agency’s director when the 9/11 attack happened. For (…)

Dear Folks,
Many of you have now read those three columns I circulated yesterday in which John Edwards has opposed a troop increase and has called upon Congress to cut the funds. I replied to each one using the title of their respective pieces. Should you wish to do the same, here is the contact information: staff@iowapolitics.com, online@press-citizen.com and http://wcco.com/contact
Iowa Wire used the title, ‘Edwards urges Congress to block Iraq escalation’.
Iowa Politics used the (…)

• Before the Islamic Revolution, Washington proposed the idea of developing nuclear energy to produce electricity, and now it is condemning Iran for doing just that, stresses Ahmad Edrisian
BY ELSON CONCEPCION PEREZ—Special for Granma International—
THE Islamic Republic of Iran celebrates the 28th anniversary of the triumph of its revolution on February 11, and is preparing to do so with significant advances in its economic development, its nuclear program for peaceful ends, its (…)